But we cant say we werent warned.
Scientists have been predicting The Big One could hit New York at some point.
And the predictions date back over a century.
Image: Science and Invention / Gizmodo
The illustrations above ran in the November 1924 issue of Science and Invention magazine.
The event would claim over 140,000 lives after the tsunami and fires ripped through Tokyo and Yokohama.
Incredibly, some people of the 1920s blamednew technologies like radiofor causing earthquakes.
Click through the slideshow for more examples from the past 100 years.
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